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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Started out really good. The mystery of the trunk was very suspenseful and compelling, and I liked the Western setting. Went downhill near the end with too many side characters and plot points that went nowhere. Don’t read this if you’re uncomfortable with graphic violence.
This was like a modern-day folklore tale, and I felt quite conflicted throughout. At times I loved it. At others I hated it. And there were moments that left me hugely confused. I’m still kind of confused by some components. I also feel as though some aspects were thrown in too late into the book or held little relevance to the story as a whole. That said, there were other parts I quite enjoyed. Overall, it was alright.
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
No rating bc I don’t really know how I felt about this tbh. I was intrigued and engrossed whilst reading, but I’m not sure I properly understand the themes the author was trying to convey. The start and end were riveting, but overall I’m left feeling mostly confused
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A brief suspeneful work of historical horror fiction about characters rarely depicted on the page. I wanted more from the story but was satisfied with the ending.
just utterly dreadful. lone women has the intellectual heft and the descriptive stylings of a book for preteens. its attempts at humor are embarrassingly self-indulgent and ahistorical. the “haunted landscape of the american west" metaphor is so clumsily literal it hurts. and the resolution reads more like a toddler’s storybook ending (“and the lady and the demon lived happily ever after in their peaceful kingdom”) than an imagined political utopia.
Brilliant, beautiful, bold. My favorite book of the year so far - a compelling story rooted in the history of women on the frontier.